The jazz singer

Publication/Creation:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]

Resource Type:

Video or Visual Material

Edition:

Three-disc deluxe edition.
80th anniversary edition.
Standard version (1.33:1).

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

The jazz singer / a Warner Bros. Pictures production ; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. and the Vitaphone Corporation present ; directed by Alan Crosland ; adaptation, Alfred A. Cohn

Uniform Title:

Jazz singer (Motion picture : 1927)

Related/Included Titles:

Day of atonement.
Dawn of sound : how the movies learned to talk.

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Additional Author/Creators:

Crosland, Alan, 1894-1936, film director
Cohn, Alfred A., 1880-1951, screenwriter
Jolson, Al, 1886-1950, actor
McAvoy, May, 1901-1984, actor
Oland, Warner, 1880-1938, actor
Besserer, Eugenie, 1870-1934, actor
Lederer, Otto, 1886-1965, actor
Rosenblatt, Josef, 1882-1933, actor
Mohr, Hal, 1894-1974, director of photography
McCord, Harold, 1893-1957, editor of moving image work
Silvers, Louis, 1889-1954, composer (expressio) and conductor
Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983. Day of atonement
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), production company
Vitaphone Corp, production company
Warner Home Video (Firm), film distributor and publisher

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Musical films
Feature films
Films for the hearing impaired
Romance films
Film adaptations
Fiction films

Subjects:

Jazz musicians--New York (State)--New York--Drama
Jewish singers--New York (State)--New York--Drama
Fathers and sons--Drama

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Disc 1. The jazz singer (96 min., including overture & exit music) -- A plantation act (1926, 10 min.) -- An intimate dinner in celebration of Warner Bros. silver jubilee (1930, 11 min.) -- Hollywood handicap (1938, 10 min.) -- A day at Santa Anita (1937, 18 min.) -- I love to singa (1936, 8 min.) -- The jazz singer [Lux Radio Theatre adaptation] (1947, 58 min.) -- The jazz singer [trailer] (1927, 7 min.) -- The singing fool [trailer] (1928, 1 min.) -- Mammy [trailer] (1930, 5 min.) -- Wonder bar [trailer] (1934, 4 min.) -- Go into your dance [trailer] (1935, 3 min.) -- The singing kid [trailer] (1936, 4 min.).
Disc 2. The dawn of sound : how the movies learned to talk documentary (2007, 85 min.) -- Gold diggers of Broadway [excerpts] (16 min.) -- The voice from the screen (1926, 15 min.) -- Finding his voice (1929, 11 min.) -- The voice that thrilled the world (1943, 18 min.) -- Okay for sound (1946, 20 min.) -- When the talkies were young (1955, 20 min.).
Disc 3. Behind the lines (1926, 8 min.) -- Bernado De Pace : the wizard of the mandolin (1927, 7 min.) -- Gus Van and Joe Schenck : the pennant winning battery of Songland (9 min., 1929) -- Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields with the Music Boxes (1928, 10 min.) -- Hazel Green & Company (1927, 8 min.) -- The night court (1927, 10 min.) -- The Police Quartette (1927, 7 min.) -- When East meets West (1928, 9 min.) -- Adele Rowland : stories in song (1928, 10 min.) -- The Jazzmania Quintette (1928, 10 min.) -- The Ingenues : the Band Beautiful (1928, 9 min.) -- Chips of the old block (1928, 8 min.) -- Dick Rich and his Melodious Monarchs (1928, 8 min.) -- Gus Arnheim and his Ambassadors (1928, 9 min.) -- The Beau Brummels (1928, 8 min.) -- Roof Garden Revue (1929, 10 min.) -- My bag o' tricks (1929, 10 min.) -- Green's Twentieth Century Faydetts (1929, 7 min.) -- Sol Violinsky : the eccentric entertainer (1929, 8 min.) -- At the seashore (1929, 9 min.) -- Paul Tremaine and his Aristocrats (1929, 7 min.) -- Baby Rose Marie, the child wonder (1929, 8 min.) -- Lambchops (1929, 8 min.) -- The happy Hottentots (1930, 11 min.).

Summary:

The melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son who aspires to be a jazz singer, despite his father's strenuous objections.

Language:

English

Language Note:

In English; with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

Physical Type/Description:

3 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 10 photograph cards (18 cm) + 1 reproduction of a Vitaphone program ([12] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm) + 1 reproduction of a souvenir program ([20] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm) + 1 reproduction of a Theater Herald leaflet ([4] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm) + 1 vintage documents reproduction booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm) + 1 reproduction of a telegram from Al Jolson to Jack Warner (18 cm)

Technical Note:

DVD, Dolby digital mono.; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; dual-layer.

General Note:

Based on the play: Day of atonement / by Samson Raphaelson.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927.
Special features (disc 1, 139 min.): optional audio commentary by Ron Hutchinson (founder of The Vitaphone Projects) and Nighthawks Bandleader Vince Giordano; 4 vintage Al Jolson short films (49 min. total); classic cartoon "I love to singa" (8 min.); Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of "The jazz singer", also starring Jolson (1947, 58 min.); Jolson trailer gallery (24 min. total).
Special features (disc 2, 185 min.): "The dawn of sound : how the movies learned to talk" documentary (2007, 85 min.); surviving excerpts from 1929's "Gold diggers of Broadway" (16 min. total); 5 studio shorts from or celebrating the early sound era (84 min.).
Special features (disc 3, 208 min.): rare & historic Vitaphone shorts from the Warner Bros. vaults.

Participant/Performer Note:

Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Joseff Rosenblatt.

Creation/Production Credits Note:

Photography, Hal Mohr ; edited by Harold McCord ; musical score and Vitaphone Orchestra directed by Louis Silvers.

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Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990007242330302486

ISBN:

1419856227
9781419856228

OCLC Number:

156980173

Other Identifiers:

Universal Product Code: 012569798892
Universal Product Code: 883929675531

Publisher Number:

79889 Warner Home Video
1000742499 Warner Home Video

Barcode:

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